Troubles of Our Own Making

"Selfishness-self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of all our troubles. Driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion self-seeking, and self-pity, we step on the toes of our fellows and they retaliate. Sometimes they hurt us, seemingly without procvocation, but we invariably find that at some time in the past we have made decvisions based on self which later placed us in a position to be hurt.

So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making. They arise out of ourselves, and the alcoholic is an extreme example self-will run riot, though he usally doesn't think so.

Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it kills us."

Alcoholics Anonymous page 62
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